Elsewhere, the visual evocation of Visconti's Death in Venice occurs fleetingly as Mahler sees a youth costumed like Visconti's image of Tadzio near an actor dressed in the characteristic white suit of Aschenbach at one of the train stations along Mahler's journey, accompanied by the Adagietto from the Fifth Symphony.

The near-abstract set provided an elegant solution to the shifting scene, but the decision to cast several of the troupe of lithe young lads (including Tadzio himself) with female dancers didn't hit the right note.

We tested several samples of lionfish and have unfortunately found that an uncomfortably high percentage showed the presence of ciguatoxin in the meat," says Tadzio Bervoets of Sint Maarten's Nature Foundation.

Thomas Mann, though married and the father of six children, had strong homoerotic urges, which he obliquely portrayed in Tonio Kroger's love for Hans Hansen, Gustav von Aschenbach's love for the Polish boy Tadzio in "Death in Venice" and Hans Castorp's love for Pribislav Hippe (another beautiful Slav) in The Magic Mountain.

While Daisy has as of this writing received many reviews (including a less-erudite-than-it-thinks pan by Tadzio Koelb in The New York Times), I don't think anybody has noticed that the "ben Canaans" Pam meets in a young Israel are actually characters repurposed from Exodus, Leon Uris' popular but (in my view) underrated novel about the founding of the Jewish state.

This was not the original plan because, as we said in last week's column, Guillaume Macaire was intending to travel over Simon Munir's Tadzio, but he is now staying at home and therefore Simon's Grandouet will run instead.

In Mann's novella, just after Aschenbach has allowed himself a terrible, alluring vision--Venice emptied by cholera, the sole survivors, Aschenbach and the boy Tadzio, left to live in terrible, forbidden intimacy--he falls into a stupor and suffers a dream.

As climate justice activist Tadzio Mueller (2010) says: 'Where a crass anti-institutionalism used to reign in the alter-globalisation movements--which, to be clear, was entirely appropriate to the situation, as the international financial institutions are one which lack any democratic legitimacy--today we encounter openness, questions, and new connections'.

The trajectory of Aschenbach's incapacity, his inability to direct his consciousness towards anything other than the object of his desire, Tadzio, is also the history of the reader's evolving and deepening involvement in an alien milieu, one propagated by an entirely fictional dispensation.

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